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@maggotbrain
This wan one of the things that git was supposed to do away with. Git is distributed, why should you need an account at gitlab.xfce.org unless you are an XFCE employee?
I'm not sure that I understand your comment.
Permissions and access still needs to be managed and abuse mitigated.
gitlab.xfce.org is a self-hosted instance of GitLab and we have to take preventative measures to deal with the creation of spam accounts. Contributors can either do that with SSO from an account they have at either gitlab.com or github.com. This does not require Xfce dev intervention.
If one does not want to use SSO, they can contact us on Matrix and an account will be created manually.
P.S. Xfce does not have any employees. We are all volunteers.
@maggotbrain
Sounds to me like git is what you don't understand.
From what you say, you are basically trying to recreate the commit access fights of cvs and svn. One of the things that git was supposed to do away with.
I use git for all my personal projects. I don't need an account. I could contribute to the Linux kernel - or any other open source project that uses git (as opposed to Github or Gitlab), and still not need an account. Just send a pull request.